How the team with the best record in Major League Baseball at the all-star break has managed to be the very worst team in the league ever since, despite getting several key players back from injury, I can’t fathom…but it would be really really nice if those bozos would remember how to play baseball for the next 3 nights at least. It’s a bit early to call these “must win” games, but I don’t think that “hope that the Dodgers continue to suck almost as bad as we do” is a workable strategy for the last 6 weeks of the season.
Have you seen our starting rotation? That might actually be the BEST strategy you’ve got.
ETA: “Rotation” really needed scare-quotes.
So, it doesn’t rotate…more like “wobbles around in circles”.
A rotation filled exclusively with knuckleballers?
Haven’t seen that since the '73 Sox trotted out a rotation of Wilbur Wood, Wilbur Wood, Wilbur Wood, and (occasionally) Stan Bahnsen.
In the endless race to the bottom of stupid corporate sports naming rights deals, the White Sox will be playing at Guaranteed Rate Field. I can guarantee that people in my office, while looking out at the Sears Tower, will still call it Comiskey. I can also guarantee that this mortgage company will be out of business within 5 years and the name will change again.
Ugh. Joining those hallowed institutions O.com Stadium and Enron Field. There oughta be a law.
(The Giants park is a weird case – it’s changed names 3 times: not because the naming rights changed, but because the owner of those rights kept changing its name. PacBell –> SBC –> AT&T.)
I work at Guaranteed Rate. We’re angrier about it then you are.
Also we’re located just outside Wrigleyville and have a box there.
The University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona, where the Arizona Cardinals NFL team play, is NOT the playing field of the University of Phoenix football team. The University of Phoenix, which has no brick and mortar existence, bought the naming rights, just like any other naming rights.
Today, the Dodgers traded away their most tenured player, AJ Ellis to the Phillies for Carlos Ruiz and a million bucks. God, I hate our front office.
And from what I understand, Clayton Kershaw cried.
They are best friends, I get it.
Seems really stupid to drop a bomb on a team that has been playing great in recent weeks. Especially when your ace is coming back soon and might appreciate having the catcher who know him best help him get back on track.
Ruiz is marginally better, but two years older. I really don’t see the point, when the downside is glaring.
Matt Moore loses no hit attempt in the ninth with 2 out, ouch! I woke up and my phone was full of MLB alerts about a no hitter in progress so I tuned in to watch the ninth. Nothing worse than losing a no hit bid on a bloop single when you’re so close.
Really…that was painful. And Moore looked really disappointed.
The Giants have had a weird run of no-hitters recently; Moore would have been the 6th since 2009. Last year’s was by a guy (Chris Heston) who I don’t even remember and don’t know where he went.
Couldn’t tell who was in RF for the Giants there, but I gotta say, it looked a little more effort could have been made on that. No hitter with 2 out in the 9th you gotta go all out, man!
Moore should have known that he couldn’t defeat the power of the bobble-head! Get the win, sure. But a no-no on Corey Seager Bobblehead Night? No way! 
The Red Sox have now lost seven left fielders to injury this year.
But Benintendi will be back soon, and he looks like the real thing. So far.
Hunter Pence had left the game earlier (hamstring)…I bet he would’ve made the catch. It was a recent call-up, Gorkys Hernandez.
See http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fantasy/injuries/#team137 – He has an oblique strain and is due back possibly in late 2016. “Placed on 60-day DL on June 29; sent on Triple-A rehab assignment Aug. 23.”
Yes. This 56 second video of the defensive highlights shows the difference in apparent hustle between Giants CF Span and RF Hernández in the bottom of the 9th. It’s like Gorkys was thinking, “If I dive and the ball goes to the ball I put at risk our 4-0 2-out lead.”
Here is Clayton “Author” Kershaw with A.J. in 2012. Thanks for the memories.